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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2004
Applicant:
John T. Petersen, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Inventor:
John T. Petersen, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houson, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/356 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a preferred embodiment, the invention provides a circuit and method for reducing soft error events in latches. The input of a first inverter is connected to the output of a second inverter. The input of a second inverter is connected to the output of the first inverter. When the input to the first inverter is disturbed by a soft error event, a signal tristates the first inverter.